Audit

Colorado taxpayers footed $7.3M bill for dead Medicaid enrollees, audit finds

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Thousands of deceased Coloradans stayed on the state’s Medicaid rolls, as the state continued paying managed care organizations to cover them, a lapse federal investigators flagged as wasteful in a recent audit.

Colorado made an estimated $7.3 million in capitation payments between 2018 and 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG). The payments continued for some Coloradans months after their deaths because of outdated reporting and system delays, state officials said.

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Pentagon fails 7th audit, costing $178 million, cannot account for $824 billion budget

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The Pentagon has failed its seventh audit in a row as of Friday and cannot account fully for the $824 billion the Department of Defense (DoD) is allocated. Despite this, DoD officials say they have “turned a corner” on the spending. The audit itself cost the government $178 million.

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